Mireille Darc

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Born: May 15, 1938 – August 28, 2017
From: Toulon, Var, France
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Biography

Mireille Darc (15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion. Born Mireille Christiane Gabrielle Aimée Aigroz in Toulon, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Toulon and moved to Paris in 1959. Darc's debuted in Claude Barma's television drama Du côté de l'enfer (aka, La Grande Brétèche, 1960). Her first leading role came in another production for French television, Jean Prat's Hauteclaire (1961). She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (Week-end, 1967) as Corinne, her highest profile role for international critics; as Christine in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, 1972) and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le retour du grand blond, 1974) and alongside Alain Delon and Louis de Funès in several films: Pouic-Pouic (1963), High Lifers (How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965), Jeff (1969), Borsalino (uncredited, 1970), The Love Mates (Madly, 1970), Icy Breasts (Les Seins de glace, 1974), Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri, 1977), Man in a Hurry (L'Homme pressé, 1977), and the television series Frank Riva (2003). Darc had a heart condition from childhood, which required open-heart surgery in 1980. She was seriously injured in a car accident on July 7, 1983, in a tunnel in the Aosta Valley, Italy, suffering a fractured spine and other injuries that required three months of immobilization in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. Although they had recently separated about two weeks prior to the accident after a fifteen-year relationship, Delon rushed to Aosta when he heard about the accident, and left separately for Geneva by automobile during the night. She quit her film career, but she returned to television in the 1990s. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Darc the Legion of Honour. In 2013, Darc underwent further open heart surgery, and during 2016 she suffered several hemorrhages. She died on 28 August 2017 in Paris in a coma at the age of 79. Source: Article "Mireille Darc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

76 films

Casino Royale

19675.3

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19746.6

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19727.0

The Great Spy Chase

19646.8

Hauteclaire

19615.0

Borsalino

19706.9

Weekend

19676.9

Squeak-squeak

19636.8

The Love Mates

19704.6

The Small Timers

19786.7

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

19625.7

Borsalino and Co.

19746.4

For a Cop's Hide

19815.9

Monte Carlo or Bust!

19695.9

Reporters

19817.0

Please, Not Now!

19615.1

À belles dents

19665.3

Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite

20158.0

Icy Breasts

19745.8

There Once Was a Cop

19726.0

La naissance du Grand Blond

2026

Death of a Corrupt Man

19776.5

The Hurried Man

19775.8

Galia

19665.2

Male Hunt

19646.5

Dandelions by the Roots

19645.4

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

19655.6

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Let's Not Get Angry

19667.5

The Upper Hand

19666.3

People in Luck

19635.5

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

20058.0

Mireille Darc, la femme libre

20188.0

The Great Restaurant II

20115.8

¿Pena de muerte?

19617.5

Jeff

19695.0

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

19706.1

Jamais avant le mariage

19825.3

Sorrel Flower

19675.2

Troubleshooters

19716.4

Le Terminus des prétentieux

20207.0

Where There's Smoke

19736.4

Fantasia Among the Squares

19715.0

Man in the Trunk

19736.3

Balearic Caper

19664.8

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

20027.7

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

20197.0

The Pink Telephone

19754.8

4XD

196410.0

Monsieur

19646.4

To Die of Love

19615.0

Tell Me You Love Me

19744.8

The Probability Factor

19764.0

Hard Boiled Ones

19644.7

The Blonde from Peking

19675.7

Trapped by Fear

19606.2

OK Patron

19745.7

The Passengers

19776.0

Love Lies

19834.0

New Year's Eve At Bob's

19846.2

The Big Grasshopper

19676.3

Sapho

199710.0

Summit

19686.3

Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...

20198.0

Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit

20158.7

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

2013

The New Aristrocrats

19614.5

Lino, il n'était que lui-même

20126.0

L'Été en hiver

19646.0

Vagabond Humor

19724.7

La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes

1998

Virginie

196210.0

L'ami de mon fils

19979.0

La grande bretèche

19603.0

Ni vue ni connue

19978.0

Mireille Darc, blessures intimes

20136.0